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31 packages bought online for Christmas. All delivered, all perfect ... except one.

For that one, I get an empty box with a sorry note and some candy.

One thing to mention. Everything that arrived was from Amazon. The one package that failed to arrive was NOT from Amazon ...
... I think I've now reached the point that if it's not being sold through Amazon prime then I won't touch it.

Vast majority of what I buy is from Amazon and there are never problems. Every single problem with delivery this year has been when I've gone outside of Prime.
The joke, of course, is that one package I could have bought from Amazon (and in fact have now just done so, to ensure it's delivered on time) ... I only went outside of Prime because I felt a bit guilty of just buying absolutely everything through Amazon.

Lesson learned.
This, naturally, excludes all those local hand made / hand crafted things from small / niche crafts people which I go and pick up myself.
However, I can't imagine that it will be long until Amazon just becomes the centre for that, for food delivery and for pretty much everything - from diapers to funerals and everything in between.
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X : Thoughts on Iran?
Me : Assassination of a senior military figure some seven days after joint Iran, Russia and China naval drills with ever closer trade talks? I think Wang Yi called it - dialogue not force should be the basis of international trade relations.
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X : Will the fires in Australia kickstart a global response to climate change?
Me : I doubt it. I suspect they won't even kickstart a meaningful change in Australia. I suspect these fires need to become biennial events in our lifetime to force the change of attitude required ...
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A weird generalisation that I've become conscious of many times with maps over the years.

Humanities students tend to ask me how do I know if the map is right?

Physicists / Engineering students tend to ask how to make a better map?
I don't know if it's just chance or something I noted and then repeatedly reinforced through confirmation bias or there is some fundamental difference between how we teach the subjects i.e. a desire to find a truth rather than a less imperfect model.
It also occurs in a slightly different setting when people tell me that "the map is not the territory".

This is often said as a negative but "the map is not the territory" is fundamental to the power of maps. They are an imperfect representation of something.
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